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AI doomerism rebuttals:

• Bryan Cantrill explains how doomers are ignorant of how the world actually works in The contagion of fear.
• Armin Ronacher laments how regulatory failure and sinophobia are causing regular everyday catastrophes in P(doom).
• Jerry Holkins rails against the criminal practices of AI companies and the quiet acceptance of the slide into neofeudal technocracy in Artificial Intelligence, Quote Unquote.
• Remy Porter reports on an ongoing catastrophe within US insurance processing in The Weakest Leg. In this section because this is the sort of real-life issues LLMs are causing, and will probably continue to cause until companies are forced to take their systems seriously.

Research:

• Jens Egholm Pedersen urges the research community to share, reuse, and enable reproducibility in Science is open software.
• Tony Padilla explains a recent Navier-Stokes equation breakthrough.
• Kurzgesagt explains how cancer treatment using viruses works.

Music:

• Mick Gordon guides the audience through the process and meta-process for creating the iconic Doom 2016 soundtrack in DOOM: Behind the Music.

Nix:

• Farid Zakaria has created a system for Visualizing Nix closures down to the individual byte as a 2D space-filling curve.